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Marc Lee reminds us that July 1 marked more than the debut of the HST. "The carbon tax is now $20 per tonne of CO2, or about 4.6 cents on a litre of gasoline. And like any two-year old, this...
July 6, 2010 | BC Office
In today's Vancouver Sun, Marvin Shaffer argues that the Clean Energy Act is far worse legislation than the HST — in fact, he says, this is the legislation that British Columbians should be...
June 14, 2010 | BC Office
The CCPA-BC office released a Climate Justice Project brief today by Marc Lee. He has found that the richest of BC income earners are responsible for almost double the carbon footprint of the...
April 22, 2010 | BC Office
Bill Rees, the father of the ecological footprint, likes to say that fossil fuels are a powerful hallucinogenic drug. We are all addicted to cheap and abundant fossil fuels, and so have reshaped...
March 16, 2010 | BC Office
The Truck Loggers' Association meets in Victoria today and tomorrow for their annual convention and trade show. Judging from the conference program, the mountain pine beetle has fallen off the...
January 20, 2010 | BC Office
The study we released yesterday,...
January 12, 2010 | BC Office
Vancouver — Forest industry unions and leading environmental groups have united behind a plan that calls on the BC government to conserve more forest, halt rampant wood waste and promote wise use...
January 11, 2010 | BC Office
In an article on the Tyee, William Rees calls the Canadian government...
December 3, 2009 | BC Office
In a recent post on Policy Note, Marc Lee points out that the BC government's recent decision to close down one big GHG producer — Burrard Thermal plant in Vancouver — won't reduce total emissions...
November 18, 2009 | BC Office
As the CCPA's Climate Justice Project takes off, we're getting some great inspiration and ideas from these innovative American projects:...
November 17, 2009 | BC Office

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